New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-21
SUPPLEMENT-.
PAGES 9 TO IL.
THE NAVAL REVIEW.
H.
THE COMING OF THE QUEEN-HEk NAVAL
COUKT-HER RETURN.


of Osborne in sight. Lunch was set out on the
ouarterdeck, which, like the rest of the ship, was
covered with awnings. The naval idea seems to be
10 shut in the deck and shut out the view. Flags
were hung all about, with the result that we could
soc nothing else and the quarterback looked like
the stage Of q theatre Lunch over, this screen OF
bunting was taken down, but not the awning on
either deck. Captain Chadwick was sent on an
embassy to the commander of the Heiicon to ask
him to fur il. but the answer was that II could not
be done without an order from the admiral. The
feet had been ordered TO spread awnings and the
Helicon was one of the fleet. SO we peeped out rs
best could from beneath the canvas and were
allowed TO sit on the paddle boxes from which
everything could best be seen. Naval etiquette
made itself in fact most HOSPITALITY unobtrusive.
Three o'clock came aud went and no Queen. Her
Majesty has departed of late from that almost
DESTINATIONS punctuality which she once delighted
to observe The Victoria and Albert, the Queens
yacht lay not far from us; the Enchantress 10 lhe
left The big white troop ships were steaming
slowly in our rear, ready to come INTO
position when the procession should be formed.
Sundry steamers and yachts were cruising about.
They had business there but the naval police OF
the harbor was presently to prove how futile were
all efforts to keep the countess small craft in
bounds 1t was half past 8, or nearly that, when
the Alberta was first shooting past the big
Osborne, and flying the royal standard which told
ne that the Queen was on board. The Osborne
soon followed, the Prince of Wales conspicuous
figure on her deck, in all the gOries of new ad-
mirars uniform. He had been made an admiral
for this occasion. But the Duke of Cambridge
was he an admiral tool Some wise man explained
that his uniform was that of the Elder Brethren OF
Trinity House; whatever it was. the critical COM
pany which looked on showed itself pleased with
Tba md
the Duke in red or in black familiar to every
body but the blue and gold on these chiefs of
Her Maiesty's land forces somehow suggested II.
NJ S. Pinafore. When the Alberta was nearest the
most striking figure on her deck was that High
land gllly, Clark who succeeds In some measure to
the state and authority of the late John Brown.
His kilt of Stuart tartan causes him 10 be taken
for some great military officer, but do not think
he yet bears o commission.
The Queen herself was visible at moments CON-
ing out from behind the funnel or from the pilot
house. But to-day the usual order OF things was
reversed. The Queen was there to see rather than
to be seen. She was not the chief figure III this
pageant save by courtesy and precedent. The
ships the shores. the harbor, the unreasonable
multitude of spectators-they and not the elderly
woman in black were what we all went out to see.
glance was as much most of the Helicon party
bestowed on Her Majesty. People were more inter
ested in picking out their own friends on the Os-
borne, OF on the lofty decks of the re-distant
Euphrates, on the Enchantress. This last ship
had passenger list which read like page of the
Court Guide. Half the pretty women i'll London
were there and one beautiful American, perhaps
more than one. but one saw. There are others on
other ships, the HecOn included, nor Is there IN
these days any "smart gathering where the beau
tiful American is not. As for the Queen, to whom
liffl hat s1r Ifiaah pr
presence TO all the world is the royal standard
which flies from the masthead of the little Alberta
Watch it. and you will see the little Alberta steam
softly alongside the big Victoria and Albert, in
which the Queen Is to review her fleet few min
utes later and the gold and crimson of the
royal standard futters down from the mast
head of the Alberta, and reappears at
the same instant, only larger and in ampler field
and folds, from the mainmast-head of the Victoria
and Alberta Then We know that the review is
about to begin.
The fleet has waited long; the vast company onsea
and shore longer still; and welcome to all was the
roar of the signal gun from the flagship of Admiral
Sir George Willes. the Inhexible which announced
that the Queen and the Queens yacht were really
in notion. 1t was miles away still, so far away
that to still clingng TO these quiet wooded Shores
the gun was inaudible. We were looking Oh while
the procession formed. The Galatea first as pilot.
then the Victoria and Albert, then the little AL
berta, after which followed the Osborne. the En-
chantress with her pretty women the Heicon
with the dipomatists, then the Euphrates with the
Peers of the Realm and Mr.. Ealstead. the Crocodile
with the Commoners of England. the Mala bar
with the Colonals and Indians, and the Assistance
with the English Press. The big ships swung slow
Nv into line, beautifully handled. and no time was
lost from the moment the Qneen's yacht had slipped
her moorings.
The feet lay far in the sunlight. rosy cloud on
I'D azure sky, distant, dreamlike, Dot feet but a
garland of colors floating in the air. All at once
from the foreign ships of war which were half a
mile nearer to us than the first En- glIsh
vessels came pufs of heecy smoke.
The French. not to be matched III ceremonial
politeness, were the first to salute the coming of
the English Queen. No sound could be heard and
when the white folds unrolled themselves far be-
yond and flashes OF fame shot out, and we knew
that the whole fleet was saluting, the silence re-
maiDed unbroken. For ali the ear told you, 1t
might have been phantom feet. The Queen held
steadily ON her escort followed steadily. 1t was
something past o'clock neared the EASTERN
most end of the squadron. Approaching from the
northeast we never saw the full array till we had
passed between the otilla of gunboats ana torpedo
boats on one side and the northern line Of ships on
the other The strength of England is drawn
in four columns of ships To the north, next to
Portsmouth oil the smaller craft. and some of the
deadlier in five divisions. South OF them two lines
of the great ronclads; south of them again the
troopships.
We come first upon the Arethusa. then the
Calypso-in all near twenty, in the northern
line. What everybody looks at most
curiously is the Devastation. which the
Ajax two days ago came near
sinking and the Ajax. who nearly sank her un-
offending consor The yards. OF in ships that have
no yards, the decks. arc manned; the British tar
now and here to be seen in his perfection; clean.
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